The accounts from Ireland of the potato crop, confirmed as they are by your high authority, are very alarming. We must consider whether it is possibl… - Robert Peel

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The accounts from Ireland of the potato crop, confirmed as they are by your high authority, are very alarming. We must consider whether it is possible by legislation, or by the exercise of prerogative, to apply a remedy to the great evil with which we are threatened. The application of such remedy involves considerations of the utmost magnitude. The remedy is the removal of all impediments to the import of all kinds of human food—that is, the total and absolute repeal for ever of all duties on all articles of subsistence.

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About Robert Peel

Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850) was a British Conservative statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835 and 1841–1846) simultaneously serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834-1835) and twice as Home Secretary (1822–1827 and 1828–1830). He is regarded as the father of modern English policing, owing to his founding of the Metropolitan Police Service. Peel was one of the founders of the modern Conservative Party.

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Alternative Names: Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet Sir Robert Peel Peel Collection [2nd Bart.] 2nd Bart. Sir Robert Peel Robert, Sir, 2nd Bart. Peel Robert, 2nd Baronet Peel Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Bt Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850) Robert, Sir Peel Robert Peel (1788-1850) 2nd Baronet Peel
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[A]ll my own interests are identified with agricultural prosperity. It is true that I am under the deepest obligation to commerce and manufactures; and I am proud to acknowledge them; but all my present pecuniary and personal interests are centred in the prosperity of agriculture.

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